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Bergdahl says he was tortured by Taliban captors
AP ^ | 6/8/2014 | Lolita C. Baldor

Posted on 06/08/2014 10:28:56 AM PDT by mojito

U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape, a senior U.S. official said Sunday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss what Bergdahl has revealed about the conditions of his captivity. The New York Times first reported on the matter.

The official said it was difficult to verify the accounts Bergdahl has given since his release a week ago.

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Military doctors at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center say that while Bergdahl is physically able to travel he's not yet emotionally prepared to be reunited with his family. He has not yet spoken to his family.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; bergdahlnarrative; bergdahltaliban; bergsahlhealth; obama; taliban
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To: Salamander
goatse's revenge...

41 posted on 06/08/2014 10:48:49 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

They made him play badminton.


42 posted on 06/08/2014 10:48:56 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: A_perfect_lady

Hey, Lady! You hit the nail on the head.


43 posted on 06/08/2014 10:49:10 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: humblegunner

*ew*


44 posted on 06/08/2014 10:50:26 AM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: livius

Heard on news this morning that there will be fury if he is made an official POW as POW’s get special benefits.

Since the one knows this will infuriate the Vets and most Americans...I am sure the one will do this...another middle finger to us.....


45 posted on 06/08/2014 10:50:31 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: Chode

LOL

Goatzilla.


46 posted on 06/08/2014 10:51:34 AM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: mojito

The left is building a narrative in preparation for his return home with pomp and circumstance.


47 posted on 06/08/2014 10:52:09 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Well, Bergdahl is at a disadvantage there-he doesn’t have a hot female cylon that only he can see advising him like Gaius Baltar did...


48 posted on 06/08/2014 10:52:26 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Wonder what color his rug is...and if they had to hire a chef to make sure everything is halal.


49 posted on 06/08/2014 10:55:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: mojito

Looking at his parents and his life he seems to be the last guy who would up and join the armed services.

I can’t figure this one out.


50 posted on 06/08/2014 10:55:12 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: mojito

I thought his platoon of pyschopaths did the torturing...


51 posted on 06/08/2014 10:56:15 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: mojito

He must have been tortured worse by the US Army.


52 posted on 06/08/2014 10:56:31 AM PDT by stevem
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To: A_perfect_lady
In other words, his liberal-hippie parents brainwashed him for years about the noble savage and our complicity in his oppression, but now he's met the underdog personally and he's realized his parents set him up for a really bad fall for their own political ends.

Probably exactly what happened. He may not have been little Johnny Jihad, just some skull-full-of-mush moron from a hippy-dippy family who thought he could pull a Timothy Leary and "Turn on, tune in, drop out" from the Army and do a walkabout in Afghanistan. The Taliban probably couldn't believe their luck when they came upon him looking for some poppys, and grabbed the idiot.

53 posted on 06/08/2014 10:56:35 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Salamander

Thanks-now the song is stuck in my head...

“Oh no-they say he’s got to go, go, go Godzilla”...


54 posted on 06/08/2014 10:58:14 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Engedi

They already said he was going to get ANOTHER promotion in June or July??


55 posted on 06/08/2014 10:58:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: CaptainK

He tried the foreign legion first. My gut tells me he was just looking for a free plane ride and that his parents were already involved in Afghanistan.


56 posted on 06/08/2014 10:59:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Texan5

LOL!

I’m a huge BOC fan but I *hate* that song.


57 posted on 06/08/2014 11:00:56 AM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: Sacajaweau

BINGO.


58 posted on 06/08/2014 11:01:15 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

He’s lucky they did not chop off his head....They wanted him alive..Maybe his dick to send home?


59 posted on 06/08/2014 11:02:06 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: mojito

Drudge :

BOWE WON’T SPEAK TO FAMILY


60 posted on 06/08/2014 11:02:57 AM PDT by woofie
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